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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#3

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#4

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

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#5

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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#6

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, favorite-books

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#7

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books

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#8

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

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#9

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

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#10

“We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
― José Saramago

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#11

“Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.”
― José Saramago

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#12

“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”
― Jose Saramago

tags: nobel-acceptance-speech

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#13

“Your questions are false if you already know the answer.”
― jose saramago

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#14

“I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― Jose Saramago

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#15

“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

tags: aristocracy, hierarchy, language, protocol, stigmas, words

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#16

“Έχω κι εγώ ένα σωρό απωθημένους ουρανούς
μα δε σκοτώνω άστρα.”
― Κική Δημουλά

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#17

“Ό,τι δεν συνέβη ποτέ, είναι ό,τι δεν ποθήσαμε αρκετά.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης

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#18

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: life

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#19

“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days

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#20

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#21

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: being-loved, happiness, inspirational, philosophy

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#22

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

tags: philosophy

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#23

“If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.”
― Robert Elias M.D.

tags: inspiration, philosophy

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#24

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: memories, past

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#25

“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”
― John Banville, The Sea

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#26

“Life is life, and kind is kind”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#27

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#28

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: acceptance, death, grief, immortality, life-goes-on, loss, memory, mourning, sorrow

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#29

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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#30

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

tags: rapture

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